Clarion 1943-01-27 Vol 22 No 06

News of World Battlefronts
By Margaret Swanson
TRIPOLI—BRITISH VS. AXIS
On the world battle front today,
we have reason for optimism. Axis
troops evacuated Tripoli in every
available small boat and barge and
were under heavy attack from al-lied
planes and warships in a
minor Dunkerque. The Axis de-molition
squads caused heavy dam-age
to the roads and bridges on
both sides of Tripoli hampering
the British, but the resistance was
futile to the onrush.
Threat to Nazi 1941 Front in
Russia
A threat to the entire Nazi front,
extending from central Russia to
the Sea of Azore ,is shaping up as
the Soviet forces drive forward
Class Discuss
Study Problem
Harris Youngquist acted as lead-er
of a discussion group Thursday,
January 21.
The problem discussed was,
"How can an atmosphere of study
be created at Bethel?'
Study suggestions for the boys
who live in homes presented by
George Johnson were (1) Prepare
a definite program for study hours,
and keep it. (2) Develop the atti-tude
that wasting time is not only
a personal matter; it is wasting
the Lord's time.
From the girl's dormitory June
Hedman reflected the opinions that
a student government be set up to
enforce rules and punish offenses
in order to maintain a good study
atmosphere.
Warner Lundberg considered the
necessity for a serious atmosphere
in the Seminary. "This country is
at war to protect freedom. Young
men are giving their lives and
those who hold 4D's have a great
responsibility to the men in the
armed forces and to this country.
The problem is not of writing new
rules but cooperating with one an-other
in study."
It was suggested by Mary Ham-lin
that in order to improve study
habits in the library each person
would Ilve to realize individual re-sponsibility
and act accordingly.
Program Coming
On Tuesday, February 2, the
gospel teams that have been active
for the first semester will present
a program in the Seminary chapel.
Beginning at 8:00 P. M. there will
be a short singspiration, followed
by ten-minute 'programs by the
teams.
Each team is to give a typical
representation of what gospel team
work includes. These presentations
will be judged on originality and a
prize will be given to the one con-sidered
best. The team with the
best attendance will also be re-warded.
This will act as a review or
climax to the past semester's work
relentlessly in the snows of Russia.
From General MacArthur's head-quarters
in Australia we hear that
allied heavy bombers damaged a
Japanese cruiser and three mer-chant
ships in twin raids against
major enemy (Jap) naval bases
almost 2,000 miles apart. Mean-while
American and Australian
troops, closing in on the last Jap
pockets in the Papua area on New
Guinea killed another 150 of the
enemy.
The worst disaster in American
aviation history cost the lives of
35 as a big transport crashed in a
remote area of Dutch Guiana. The
victims included author Eric
Knight, two FBI agents, and two
State Department officials.
Meetings Feature
Officer Election
Class Dues
The Sophomore and Freshmen
classes held meetings during con-vocation
hour, January 19.
Sophomore: The meeting was
called to order by the president
Rune Mentzer with prayer by Dana
Larson and reports were made by
the various officers. Harris Young-quist
was elected temporary Treas-urer
to take the place of Melvin
Wyma. Gordon Johnson was elect-ed
Chaplin.
There was discussion about the
sleigh-ride party, and comments
were made by Prof. C. E. Carlson.
Freshmen: The meeting was
called to order by the president,
David Danielson and Harold Mc-
Clure led in prayer. Plans were
discussed for a party. Bill Haring
chairman of the program commit-tee
gave a report. Class dues were
voted at $1.00 a•semester. The J.S.
Banquet was also discussed.
The Junior Class also had a
meeting which was in the charge
of Cecil Lindblom, president. Their
business consisted of electing Prof.
Omark as class advisor and discus-sion
on adopting a three-year proj-ect
to be completed upon the grad-uation
of the class and donated as
a memorial.
On Thursday, January 21, evan-gelist
Winston Sherwick addressed
the Seminary Chapel using II Tim.
1:7 as a text, and brought an in-spiring
message to the students.
He used three points in his treat-ment;
"1. Enfeebled rather than
empowered; 2. Passive rather than
passionate; and 3. Self conscious
rather than self controlled.'
Dr. Karlson gave an interesting
testimony in Chapel on Tuesday
concerning his work last summer.
The theme is taken from I John
5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world: and this is
the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith."
The program committee includes
Dale Bjork, chairman; Dana Lar-son,
publicity; and Gordon John-son,
programs. On the Banquet
committee are: Miriam Johanson,
chairman; Dick Sleiter and Gordon
Thompson, furniture; and Elving
Anderson, tickets. Committees on
decorations consists of Lola Grace
Anderson, chairman and in charge
of table decorations and invita-tions;
Francis Otto and Stamford
Widen, chapel decorations.
In seeming anticipation by two
days of the Clarion's plea for blood
donors for the Red Cross, the mid-dle-
men of the Seminary under the
presidency of Francis Otto have de-cided
to give one pint for each
member of the class. The decision
was reached at the class meeting
held last Tuesday, January 19.
Whether or not they would go in
a body or individually was not dis-closed.
Other business taken care of con-sisted
of appointing of committees
for arrangements for a class party
and for the annual Seminary Ban-quet
in the spring. Stanley Paul-son
was chosen as chairman of the
party committee, and those on the
banquet committee are Gunnar
Hoglund for arrangements and
Dick Sleiter for decorations.
Reveal Secrets
of Dorm Life
The secrets of dormitory life
were revealed at the B. W,. A. pro-gram
presented by Lois Nelson's
cabinet on Thursday afternoon,
January 21. •
After the singing of a chorus by
the audience, four-scene skits be-gan
with Joy Phillips and Peggy
Applequist's slumbers interrupted
by an alarm clock. Then followed
a regular day's routine of break-fast,
lunch and evening activities
interspersed by Maxine Olson's
moron jokes and Peggy's revela-tion
of ways to outwit Mrs. Nylof.
Included in the program were an
instrumental trio by Joy Phillips,
LaVerne Johnson, and Edith Ann
Peterson, a vocal solo by Ruth Mc-
Clure and a poem read by Pauline
Frans.
Among the announcements was
a list of the girls who have left
or are leaving school. Mention was
made of the snapshot album in the
Dormitory. Mary Hamlin is in
charge of collecting the girl's pic-tures
for it.
Two Parties Planned
By Classes
On February 22nd, the Freshmen
Class plans to have a roller skat-ing
party. It is to be held at the
Oxford Skating Rink, 1051 Grand
Avenue, St. Paul. Tickets are 35c
per person. Bill Haring and Clar-ence
Sahlin are in charge of tickets
sales.
The Sophomore Class has plan-ned
a sleigh ride party to be held
when weather permits. Prof. C. E.
Carlson will be in charge of re-freshments.
BETHEL
CLARION
Vol. XXII No. 6 January 27, 1943
Banquet to Be Held February 9
Action has been taken by the Student Council to sponsor a banquet
in honor of those who are leaving Bethel for the Armed Forces. It will
be held on Tuesday, February 9, in the Junior College. Whether it is to
be "formal" or "informal" has not been officially announced.
Committees have been appointed to arrange for the program, ban-quet,
and decorations. An important meeting of the Program Committee
was held last Thursday. Musical selections are to be given by Ingmar
Larson, Ben Anderson, and a male quartet from school. It has been
decided that Pres. H. C. Wingblade will be the speaker. Those who
intend to leave will also have an opportunity to participate.
News from the Seminary
Election . .. Address . . . Classes
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
By Ex-Clarion Chief,
Last Sunday when church was
over two friends, one in the pew
behind my own and one in the pew
ahead ,immediately engaged my at-tention
and drew me out into the
aisle to talk. The neighborhood
stranger with whom I had seated
myself but had been unable to
speak to because the service had
already begun,-left wthout a friend-ly
word or handshake from me.
I feel I know how she must have
felt. It's my church home and if
some older church member sits
with me and doesn't speak after
service, I usually feel highly neg-lected.
AND I FAILED TO TALK TO A
STRANGER!
The t i m e w e often think is
wasted, never is you know. If you
don't make some use of it for good
and God, Satan can always accom-plish
some little thing with that
time you don't need.
Think of a housewife I know.
She had developed the idea she
was shy and of delicate physique.
Therefore, she refused to make
church connections- and to work
with church groups—although she
had much leisure time; she never
joined any civic group. After clean-ing
her home every morning and
sending her family off to their var-ious
pursuits, she had nothing to
occupy her mind and hands.
That was too much a waste of
time for Satan. The woman fell
into the habit of sitting for hours
deep in daydreams. Psychologists
call this state schizophrenia. Schiz-ophrenia
is an unhealthy state of
mind. The woman began to dwell
on her shyness and delicate con-dition—
although her health was as
unimpaired as the health of any
member of her family.
Within a matter of relatively
few years that woman had to be
confined to a mental institution.
Wasted time? No, SOMEONE
was using that time to his advan-tage!
Life—in the concrete—should be
a pattern of dignity and value. Too
many people cheapen their product
with outward embellishments; why
should we? There are many thou-sands
who will mistake or ignore
the highest good; why should we
also? There will be millions and
thousands of people in this New
Year who will make inadequate
motions, think inadequate thoughts
give less than their share to friend-ship—
never know fellowship.
Why mimic that kind of ex-ample?
A long time ago a man of
Galilee set a perfect example—of
friendship, fellowship, kinship with
God and man. He accomplished in
His limited life span of thirty-three
years what no one or group has
since been able to conquer.
He gave us inspiration, sanctifi-cation
,standards and rules to help
us live up to the standards. He
gave us Love and Christianity. H E
GAVE HIMSELF.
That is perhaps the challenge of
the New Year and success. Give
yourself. Live dynamically. Don't
/
Alice Schouweiler
try to accomplish things by half
measures. I can remember my
grandmother as saying—"A thing
worth doing at all is worth doing
right."
If you have a friend you are
lucky. Put some effort into that
friendship. If you have friendship
to offer, find someone who needs
a friend. Go out and DO even in
the matter of friendship.
When you are given a lesson or
assigned to work on some school
or church project—bite into the
crux of your problem and bite hard.
Go at things and get them done.
I have yet to find a problem that
will solve itself or a lesson that
is best studied at the eleventh
hour.
Nature is fashioned dynamically.
Man has become neurotic in his de-mand
for motion, speed, power.
Life requires of us that we keep
in step.
1943 offers us the time to re-model
and streamline our lives into
the machine pattern of motion,
speed, power; motion forward,
speed upward, power through the
grace of God.
Our first duty is not to 1943 or
to the machine age, but to the
Creator of all thinks. II Cor. 9:6.
by Alice Schouweiler.
OUQ, INQUIQING
PCPC)121-01
by Gwen Parsons
How may study habits at Bethel
be improved?
Lloyd S.: If each individual student
had the desire to study, the prob-lem
would be solved.
Mrs. ?: A few people should be
kicked out of the library.
Warner L.: We must realize our
responsibility toward God.
Peggy A.: Have date nights.
Elving A.: I don't know anything
about studying. (Ha! Ha! )
Gene J.: Put a few beds in the
library and please pull the
shades.
Miss Johnson: Standing around in
the halls won't help.
G. Nyman, after four years of ob-servation:
1. Close coffee shop.
2. Eliminate all athletics.
3. Compulsory rising hours.
4. Limit extra-curricular activi-ties.
5. No bath tub parties—what a
place this would be!
Miriam J.: By going to bed at
eleven and being quiet before
then.
Roger Y.: Sling a test everyday. In-flict
penalties for noise in the
dorm (on me).
A Biography of
K. J. Karlson
K.J. Karlson, son of Karl S. Asle-son,
was born in Sweden in 1877.
As was the custom in those days,
he received his name from his
father's first name plus "son" mak-ing
it Karlson. He was the eldest
of eight children in the family. Mr.
Karlson began his education in the
"old country" with regular public
school and then was graduated
from Bethel-seminariet in Stock-holm,
Sweden, a school similar to
our Seminary.
After twenty-seven years, he
came to America, leaving his
family, and home behind ,as Paul
says in Phillipians, "forgetting
those things which are behind and
pressing on toward the mark of
the prize of the high-calling of God
in Christ Jesus."
Mr. Karlson was graduated from
Clark University at Worcester,
Massachusetts, where he received
his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. During
his school days he served as stu-dent
pastor and in 1904-1906 held
a pastorate in Manchester, N. H.
where he was ordained in 1905.
Later he served in two other
churches, the longer being at Wor-cester,
Mass. from 1916-22. -
He moved to Minnesota in 1923
where he took up the work at the
Bethel Baptist Church in Minne-apolis
as well as that of teaching
in our Seminary. Previously he
had taught psychology at Clark
University for seven years. In four
years he was elected to the posi-tion
of Dean of the Seminary which
he has held ever since. He has
taught various subjects including
Hebrew, Life of Christ, Church His-tory
and in addition now teaches
psychology in the College.
Sacreligion
It isn't only a simple matter of
Gremlins that we of the Bethel
family have to beware of, but
rather something of much greater
importance. Being in Christian sur-roundings,
life seems easy, but that
is when we have to guard against
ourselves, rather than outside in-fluences.
We all are familiar with
spiritual things in their correct
sense, but then instead of keeping
them spiritual, many times we slip
and use them in an unspiritual
way.
We sometimes consider the or-dinary,
everyday act of prayer of
no more importance, spiritually,
than that of sharpening a pencil,
and yet we condemn others for
taking God's name in vain. When
we pray without entering God's
presence we as much commit a
blasphemy as others that use his
name for a curse. Just because we
have the name of "Christian"
tacked to us is no sign that we can
use His name for any and all pur-poses
or in any or all places that
we desire.
I don't believe that if we could
in the smallest measure realize
His power and glory that we would
enter a prayer meeting laughing
and having fun. Indeed we should
be joyful but it doesn't take the
form of boisterous laughter. Rather
it should be expressed in deep rev-erence.
Our Christianity is a great
deal judged by our attitudes and
if they are noble and worthy, I am
convinced that our expressions of
them will be likewise.
He has not only been active in
the school but also has been an
important leader in Conference
work, being the chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the Minne-sota
Swedish Baptist Conference
since 1934.
Mr. Karlson has also written sev-eral
books on his studies which
are in themselves treasures to pos-terity,
but there are other intan-gible
things that are greater and
more lasting than wood pulp that
will preserve the memory of Dr.
K. J. Karlson much longer.
This Is the Life
THE BETHEL CLARION
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Editor-in-chief Dana Larson
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Reporters Will Borne, Mrs. McClure, Miriam Quarnstrom,
Gordon Krantz, Roger Youngquist, Doris Fanberg, Dave
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
eg.deitifrif 44.0.1 With 4uife4
Herr Schickelgruber has recently
dispatched another mess of grem-lins
to work on the integrity of
those loyal Americans at home.
Their purpose is to undermine mor-ale
and plant all sorts of untruths
and prejudices in the American
minds. The work of several of
these little insidious creatures has
been very felt around Bethel these
days of cramming for exams.
They have been felt most just
the night afore that plaguing
theme is due or the (censored)
history test comes. They sit on our
shoulders and tell us all about the
injustices of the teachers; they
whisper all the lovely things that
are nice to remember about that
"certain someone" back home.
They tell us how badly we need
sleep; they remind us all about the
funny programs on the radio, and
they usually get results when they
tell us how hungry we are, then
they laugh as we start on our way
to the nearest eating stalls.
During the hours that we are to
study (?) in the library they
scamper in and sit beside us and
remind us all about the "date"
last night. It is almost impossible
to get away from the little creat-ures
especially when they start the
"age-old" conversation of 'Have
you heard the latest?' And just
when you get on the clue to solve
why Savonarola lived during the
Reformation, one little fellow
braces himself against your nose
and chest and your head turns
slowly to the magazine rack and
lo and behold—There's the new
Reader's Digest that you haven't
read. Up from behind comes a
long sharp-nosed "gremlin-ette"
who sticks you with his long jag-ged-
edged beak. And you find
yourself holding up the wall read-ing
the Book Section which is good
N EWSE TT E S
Marilyn Peterson and Doris Fan-berg
were honored at a birthday
party in the lounge of the girls
dormitory on Wednesday night. We
understand that Marilyn appreciat-ed
all the greetings she received
on that day.
Bob and Stan Paulson worked to-gether
in the Emerald Ave. Bap-tist
Church of Chicago during
prayer week with Reverend Carl
Olson, a graduate of Bethel Semin-ary.
Meetings were held every
night during the week.
Another of life's enigmas—why
is it that the fellows who live out-side
the dorm can get to class in
the morning before those who live
right upstairs, only a flight of
stairs away?
Ralph Johnson, the fellow-the-sem
- wouldn't - be - the -same-again-without,
found a snowball in his
for killing just about all of your
two hours for study.
About 10:30 A. M. when the
gremlins have chased all remem-brances
of breakfast away, that is
if you ate breakfast, three or four
of the husky gremlins have you on
your way down to spend just a
few minutes of "fellowship with
the kids" in the coffee shop. When
you walk out of the rendezvous
and you know you are late for
Comp or you're locked out of
Chemistry, you start up to the mail
boxes. But the gremlins saw you
coming, and they delayed the mail
from home so your land lady will
have to wait just one more day for
her money, and your room mate
will have to wait one more day (?)
for the treat you owe him.
The clocks around school are the
hardest hit by these little
creatures. They are always stamp-ing
on the alarm buttons of the
dorm alarm clocks so that they
don't go off in time for you to get
to first hour class. Just when it is
about ten to twelve (P. M.) and
the line-up forms in front of the
girls' dorm these gremlins give the
minute hand of Mrs. Nylof's clock
a hefty push that ruins the "Late"
for next week. When Ec. gets the
most boring and sleep is impos-sible,
the bell in the hall is ex-pertly
padded so that the thing is
never heard, giving you at least
ten long minutes extra to suffer.
Morning, noon, and night these
hideous creatures are at work try-ing
to upset our plans, and to get
us to waste time. To get our dear
friend Schickelgruber back to
hanging—paper, we first have to
show these gremlins that we are
on the road to victory here on the
home front by defeating them at
every turn of the way.
bed the other night, and in spite
of the fact that he knows all of
the fellows in the dorm, he still
thinks it was an inside job!
The Alexis Society will have an
election soon. Watch for the bal-lot.
Members of the Alexis in-clude
all students who are in the
Seminary and those who plan to
attend in the future.
Speaking of birthdays, the girls
in the dorm sang (at lunch time)
for Percy on his birthday. Too bad
he wasn't there to enjoy it.
Perhaps Mr. Borgeson is a mir-acle
worker or a magician in plain
clothing. Be that as it may, we
haven't heard a single complaint
from the dormitory occupants
about the temperature, (except the
roomers in the extreme northwest
corner, but no one listens to them
anyway.)
Already money and pledges have
begun to come into the office for
the fund of the prospective men's
dormitory. In February our school
launches. a $75,000 drive for the
building to be built to accommo-date
75 men.
We would like to know what at-traction
Helen Soder finds in the
telephone booth on the landing.
"That's what she gets for cutting
Swedish," says Miss Johnson.
* * *
Laugh and the world laughs with
you. Cry and you streak your
rouge.
* * *
The other night the Board ate at
the dormitory. Lots of girls wish
they did all the time because of the
food ,but for the real truth ask the
kitchen crew and Miss Johnson.
* * *
What with all the cold weather
and snow there hasn't been as
much excitement outside the dorm
after 10:30 as formerly. It's a
great improvement—Scrut.
* * *
Did you know that when Rosen-quist
had a mustache he didn'i
need to use a tooth brush morn-ings
because he could just roll his
lip inside and wiggle it.
Gather 'Round
1 sun plus 1 groundhog—minus
1 handful of clouds equals 6 weeks
of winter.
Sun, cloud, and weeks of winter
are all well-known to Bethel stu-dents,
especially when they are
mixed in the Minnesota weather
proportions. Now what is a
groundhog?
Gather 'round, children, and
listen. The groundhog is called
everything from Woodchuck, we-jack
,and ground pig to subterran-ian
swine. Science knows a lot
about these interesting little
weather prophets.
For one thing, this annual cus-tom
of coming up for a look—see
is more or less compulsory. One
marmot (polite for groundhog),
way back in the ice age, overslept*
and had to wait some time before
a landslide dug him out. In fact,
The new theme song of certain
Bethel girls seems to be, "Califor-nia
Here We Come." Did you hear
about the auction of Saturday, Jan-uary
16, at the girls dorm? The
wardrobes of these certain girls
were greatly depleted.
* * *
Shine Swanson, the boy who was
self conscious about his tiny frame
upon entrance into high school,
grew eight inches in one year! Im-agine
that!
Gordon Krantz mentioned women
drivers in a recent discussion. He
said, "speaking of women drivers
—one thing about a worm he
doesn't stick out his hand to con-fuse
you before he turns."
* * *
This is a muddled up mess again
but concentration takes a clear
mind. I wish semesters were over
with.
Thanks Char and Roger for your
help in finding news.
archie the cockroach
his bones were found just last
month.
The most curious fact that
science has discovered about the
marmot is that he has no idea how
he influences the life of man. He
goes to sleep in the fall, and when
a warm whiff of air blows down
his front hall he wakes up. Usually
that happens in February. Being
hungry, he makes a bee-line for the
nearest exit. At the surface he
sits up on his haunches **. Then
he grabs what food he can find,
rolls back down his tunnel, and
goes to sleep.
From such an innocent begin-ning,
a legend has been built up
around the little buck-toothed ro-dent*
* *
* There were no alarm clocks in
the ice age, probably because
breakfast was not at seven.
** We don't know why, too.
* * * No offense, Tojo. On the
contrary.
Gremlin Report
By Bob Norstrom
Found in the Typewriter
dear boss
really boss you expect too much you complain of a little matter
of ten times around the gym and here i have to bounce on these type-writer
keys to write your column and the worst of it is the unearthly
hours in forced to keep to avoid the janitor
all of which wauldnt be so bad were it not that its only a week
since the last deadline i wish youd speak to the editor
another thing the way this typewriter doesnt work is a scandal to
the jaybirds if you dont fix it youll have to hire me a gypist there it
goes again i mean typist the keys jammed and i had an awful time
extricating my left hind foot i still have painful memories of the time
my antennae got wound up on the ribbon spool
i dont mind following you around other places but i dont think ill
go into the chemistry lab again the other day i tracked down a beautiful
odor of ripe cackle berries and all i found was a tube of h2s not that
im the only one who gets confused there was the time i was trying to
short circuit the tindle beam and overheard professor norstrom ask
mirian quarnstrom what is hno3 and quarnie answered oh ah well i have
it on the tip of my tongue and herr norstrom said youd better spit it
out thats nitric acid
now boss id better quit before i reach the end of the paper because
i just cant wrench the sheet out once i get it in the machine besides the
editor might wield the blue pencil as he no doubt will anyhow you know
how editors are
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Grumm Leading Scorer;
Bethel Led at Half, i5-13
Concordia won its first game of
the 1942-43 from a fighting victory
minded Bethel five. Both teams
played a good brand of ball with
the Comets having a slight edge
in experienced men.
Action was plenteous and many
fans wgre nursing sore throats
over the week-end as a result of
the see-saw contest which saw both
teams vie desperately for top
honors.
Bethel took the lead early in the
game with three field goals by Gus-tafson.
The rest of the firSt quar-ter
was a tight defensive game
with the score tied at 6-6 as the
second frame began.
The Indians were clicking to-gether
as a coordinated machine in
the second quarter of the game
rolling up points while still hold ,
ing an edge in the defense column.
As the horn sounded at the half,
the Bethelites were leading 15-13.
The Concordian men showed a
little more spirit in the final half
of the game and managed to stay
in the lead most of the remaining
time despite the thorns in their
side that the Indians proved them-selves
to be. The third quarter
gun found the Comets on the long
end of a 27-22 score.
Using all of their reserve play-ers,
Concordia held their lead in
the final quarter and split the
hemp for enough field goals to
show up as victors in the final
score, 39-33.
Concordia's Grumm was the nigh
scorer of the evening with 19
points, followed by Swanson with
10 and Gustafson with 8.
The free throw column gave the
Indians 3 out of 11 while the Corn-ets
sank 5 of 15. Johnny Daniel-son
was the only player to leave
the floor yia the 4-foul route.
Adam was the referee.
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Incidentally, where was the
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game? Sure there is a time and
place for everything.
Bethel may be fifty points behind
with a second left and every loyal
Bethel fan should still be yelling
his or her head off!
The game is almost over and
I'll soon have to get off the bench
or sleep down here, but let me get
this in. There is a good. deal of
talk about a new men's dorm. We
are wondering if the leaders are
considering a gym in the place.
Maybe it isn't possible, perhaps it
is. We need a new gym and we
hope they are thinking about it.
If they are, here's a fifty dollar
War Bond!
CALENDAR
Jan. 30—B. B.—Farm School—
There
Feb. 2��Ground Hog Day
Feb. 2—Gospel Team Program
Feb. 4—Exams.
Feb. 5—Exams.
Feb. 5—B. B.—Worthington
Feb. 8—Exams.
Feb. 9—Exams.
Feb. 9—Farewell Banquet.
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BETHEL DROPS OPENER
On the Bench
By BO
It's not legal, it's not official.
Nevertheless, friends, this is direct
from the bench. We are all human,
more or less, and as such are sub-ject
to errors. Those on the bench
not only are human but are under
the most terrific emotional stress
and strain imaginable; therefore of
all men they are the most pitiable.
So please, if we say anything with
which you are not in harmony or
with which you absolutely and
most vehemently disagree, take it
easy. We are now in the midst
of an • emotional distrubance-spring
isn's the only time—and
can't he held fully responsible. I
thought totaldepravity of man
would work in here but I guess
that belongs to my second sem-ester.
Always I have been brought up
to believe that the women did the
gossiping. Boy, you should have
been in on the basketball session
Monday after that Concordia game.
Coach Johnson started off telling
the guys what was wrong with
them. Next he asked the fellows
to make criticisms of one another.
Poor Thompson, he didn't have too
much hair anyway. As a sugges-tion,
perhaps it would be well also
if coach had a private conference
with each player to make correc-tions
and listen to criticisms. They
would be frank, more to the point,
and only the coach would know the
source. The coach should know
how each individual feels. Besides,
I could be still deluded into think-ing
I can play basketball.
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Comets Tip
Indians 52-34
The Bethel Reserves, trying val-iantly
to stake a win in the pre- -
liminary tilt last Saturday on their
home floor, went down in defeat
to a powerful Concordia High
School quintet. It was an action-packed
game but the Indians were
outplayed in every department.
The Comettes took the bad at
the start of the game and held it
during the rest of the game. The
Papooses tried to stem the on-slaught
but loose ball-handling and
poor posses spelled defeat for
Bethel against a well organized
outfit from Concordia.
As the horn ended the first half,
the Bethel men were on the short
end of a 29-14 score but despite
the doubled_ score piled up by the
Comettes, the Indians came back
in the second half to make an ad-ditional
20 points. However, Con-cordia
continued its fast brand of
ball to lead at the end of the game
52-34.
Henrichs of Concordia, led the
field in scoring with a total of 24
points followed at a distance by
Mentzer with 10 and Anderson with
8 points for Bethel. Bethel com-pleted
only 2 out of 15 attempted
while Concordia made 6 out of 10.
Adam, from Cambridge, also ref-erred
this game.
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News of World Battlefronts
By Margaret Swanson
TRIPOLI—BRITISH VS. AXIS
On the world battle front today,
we have reason for optimism. Axis
troops evacuated Tripoli in every
available small boat and barge and
were under heavy attack from al-lied
planes and warships in a
minor Dunkerque. The Axis de-molition
squads caused heavy dam-age
to the roads and bridges on
both sides of Tripoli hampering
the British, but the resistance was
futile to the onrush.
Threat to Nazi 1941 Front in
Russia
A threat to the entire Nazi front,
extending from central Russia to
the Sea of Azore ,is shaping up as
the Soviet forces drive forward
Class Discuss
Study Problem
Harris Youngquist acted as lead-er
of a discussion group Thursday,
January 21.
The problem discussed was,
"How can an atmosphere of study
be created at Bethel?'
Study suggestions for the boys
who live in homes presented by
George Johnson were (1) Prepare
a definite program for study hours,
and keep it. (2) Develop the atti-tude
that wasting time is not only
a personal matter; it is wasting
the Lord's time.
From the girl's dormitory June
Hedman reflected the opinions that
a student government be set up to
enforce rules and punish offenses
in order to maintain a good study
atmosphere.
Warner Lundberg considered the
necessity for a serious atmosphere
in the Seminary. "This country is
at war to protect freedom. Young
men are giving their lives and
those who hold 4D's have a great
responsibility to the men in the
armed forces and to this country.
The problem is not of writing new
rules but cooperating with one an-other
in study."
It was suggested by Mary Ham-lin
that in order to improve study
habits in the library each person
would Ilve to realize individual re-sponsibility
and act accordingly.
Program Coming
On Tuesday, February 2, the
gospel teams that have been active
for the first semester will present
a program in the Seminary chapel.
Beginning at 8:00 P. M. there will
be a short singspiration, followed
by ten-minute 'programs by the
teams.
Each team is to give a typical
representation of what gospel team
work includes. These presentations
will be judged on originality and a
prize will be given to the one con-sidered
best. The team with the
best attendance will also be re-warded.
This will act as a review or
climax to the past semester's work
relentlessly in the snows of Russia.
From General MacArthur's head-quarters
in Australia we hear that
allied heavy bombers damaged a
Japanese cruiser and three mer-chant
ships in twin raids against
major enemy (Jap) naval bases
almost 2,000 miles apart. Mean-while
American and Australian
troops, closing in on the last Jap
pockets in the Papua area on New
Guinea killed another 150 of the
enemy.
The worst disaster in American
aviation history cost the lives of
35 as a big transport crashed in a
remote area of Dutch Guiana. The
victims included author Eric
Knight, two FBI agents, and two
State Department officials.
Meetings Feature
Officer Election
Class Dues
The Sophomore and Freshmen
classes held meetings during con-vocation
hour, January 19.
Sophomore: The meeting was
called to order by the president
Rune Mentzer with prayer by Dana
Larson and reports were made by
the various officers. Harris Young-quist
was elected temporary Treas-urer
to take the place of Melvin
Wyma. Gordon Johnson was elect-ed
Chaplin.
There was discussion about the
sleigh-ride party, and comments
were made by Prof. C. E. Carlson.
Freshmen: The meeting was
called to order by the president,
David Danielson and Harold Mc-
Clure led in prayer. Plans were
discussed for a party. Bill Haring
chairman of the program commit-tee
gave a report. Class dues were
voted at $1.00 a•semester. The J.S.
Banquet was also discussed.
The Junior Class also had a
meeting which was in the charge
of Cecil Lindblom, president. Their
business consisted of electing Prof.
Omark as class advisor and discus-sion
on adopting a three-year proj-ect
to be completed upon the grad-uation
of the class and donated as
a memorial.
On Thursday, January 21, evan-gelist
Winston Sherwick addressed
the Seminary Chapel using II Tim.
1:7 as a text, and brought an in-spiring
message to the students.
He used three points in his treat-ment;
"1. Enfeebled rather than
empowered; 2. Passive rather than
passionate; and 3. Self conscious
rather than self controlled.'
Dr. Karlson gave an interesting
testimony in Chapel on Tuesday
concerning his work last summer.
The theme is taken from I John
5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world: and this is
the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith."
The program committee includes
Dale Bjork, chairman; Dana Lar-son,
publicity; and Gordon John-son,
programs. On the Banquet
committee are: Miriam Johanson,
chairman; Dick Sleiter and Gordon
Thompson, furniture; and Elving
Anderson, tickets. Committees on
decorations consists of Lola Grace
Anderson, chairman and in charge
of table decorations and invita-tions;
Francis Otto and Stamford
Widen, chapel decorations.
In seeming anticipation by two
days of the Clarion's plea for blood
donors for the Red Cross, the mid-dle-
men of the Seminary under the
presidency of Francis Otto have de-cided
to give one pint for each
member of the class. The decision
was reached at the class meeting
held last Tuesday, January 19.
Whether or not they would go in
a body or individually was not dis-closed.
Other business taken care of con-sisted
of appointing of committees
for arrangements for a class party
and for the annual Seminary Ban-quet
in the spring. Stanley Paul-son
was chosen as chairman of the
party committee, and those on the
banquet committee are Gunnar
Hoglund for arrangements and
Dick Sleiter for decorations.
Reveal Secrets
of Dorm Life
The secrets of dormitory life
were revealed at the B. W,. A. pro-gram
presented by Lois Nelson's
cabinet on Thursday afternoon,
January 21. •
After the singing of a chorus by
the audience, four-scene skits be-gan
with Joy Phillips and Peggy
Applequist's slumbers interrupted
by an alarm clock. Then followed
a regular day's routine of break-fast,
lunch and evening activities
interspersed by Maxine Olson's
moron jokes and Peggy's revela-tion
of ways to outwit Mrs. Nylof.
Included in the program were an
instrumental trio by Joy Phillips,
LaVerne Johnson, and Edith Ann
Peterson, a vocal solo by Ruth Mc-
Clure and a poem read by Pauline
Frans.
Among the announcements was
a list of the girls who have left
or are leaving school. Mention was
made of the snapshot album in the
Dormitory. Mary Hamlin is in
charge of collecting the girl's pic-tures
for it.
Two Parties Planned
By Classes
On February 22nd, the Freshmen
Class plans to have a roller skat-ing
party. It is to be held at the
Oxford Skating Rink, 1051 Grand
Avenue, St. Paul. Tickets are 35c
per person. Bill Haring and Clar-ence
Sahlin are in charge of tickets
sales.
The Sophomore Class has plan-ned
a sleigh ride party to be held
when weather permits. Prof. C. E.
Carlson will be in charge of re-freshments.
BETHEL
CLARION
Vol. XXII No. 6 January 27, 1943
Banquet to Be Held February 9
Action has been taken by the Student Council to sponsor a banquet
in honor of those who are leaving Bethel for the Armed Forces. It will
be held on Tuesday, February 9, in the Junior College. Whether it is to
be "formal" or "informal" has not been officially announced.
Committees have been appointed to arrange for the program, ban-quet,
and decorations. An important meeting of the Program Committee
was held last Thursday. Musical selections are to be given by Ingmar
Larson, Ben Anderson, and a male quartet from school. It has been
decided that Pres. H. C. Wingblade will be the speaker. Those who
intend to leave will also have an opportunity to participate.
News from the Seminary
Election . .. Address . . . Classes
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
By Ex-Clarion Chief,
Last Sunday when church was
over two friends, one in the pew
behind my own and one in the pew
ahead ,immediately engaged my at-tention
and drew me out into the
aisle to talk. The neighborhood
stranger with whom I had seated
myself but had been unable to
speak to because the service had
already begun,-left wthout a friend-ly
word or handshake from me.
I feel I know how she must have
felt. It's my church home and if
some older church member sits
with me and doesn't speak after
service, I usually feel highly neg-lected.
AND I FAILED TO TALK TO A
STRANGER!
The t i m e w e often think is
wasted, never is you know. If you
don't make some use of it for good
and God, Satan can always accom-plish
some little thing with that
time you don't need.
Think of a housewife I know.
She had developed the idea she
was shy and of delicate physique.
Therefore, she refused to make
church connections- and to work
with church groups—although she
had much leisure time; she never
joined any civic group. After clean-ing
her home every morning and
sending her family off to their var-ious
pursuits, she had nothing to
occupy her mind and hands.
That was too much a waste of
time for Satan. The woman fell
into the habit of sitting for hours
deep in daydreams. Psychologists
call this state schizophrenia. Schiz-ophrenia
is an unhealthy state of
mind. The woman began to dwell
on her shyness and delicate con-dition—
although her health was as
unimpaired as the health of any
member of her family.
Within a matter of relatively
few years that woman had to be
confined to a mental institution.
Wasted time? No, SOMEONE
was using that time to his advan-tage!
Life—in the concrete—should be
a pattern of dignity and value. Too
many people cheapen their product
with outward embellishments; why
should we? There are many thou-sands
who will mistake or ignore
the highest good; why should we
also? There will be millions and
thousands of people in this New
Year who will make inadequate
motions, think inadequate thoughts
give less than their share to friend-ship—
never know fellowship.
Why mimic that kind of ex-ample?
A long time ago a man of
Galilee set a perfect example—of
friendship, fellowship, kinship with
God and man. He accomplished in
His limited life span of thirty-three
years what no one or group has
since been able to conquer.
He gave us inspiration, sanctifi-cation
,standards and rules to help
us live up to the standards. He
gave us Love and Christianity. H E
GAVE HIMSELF.
That is perhaps the challenge of
the New Year and success. Give
yourself. Live dynamically. Don't
/
Alice Schouweiler
try to accomplish things by half
measures. I can remember my
grandmother as saying—"A thing
worth doing at all is worth doing
right."
If you have a friend you are
lucky. Put some effort into that
friendship. If you have friendship
to offer, find someone who needs
a friend. Go out and DO even in
the matter of friendship.
When you are given a lesson or
assigned to work on some school
or church project—bite into the
crux of your problem and bite hard.
Go at things and get them done.
I have yet to find a problem that
will solve itself or a lesson that
is best studied at the eleventh
hour.
Nature is fashioned dynamically.
Man has become neurotic in his de-mand
for motion, speed, power.
Life requires of us that we keep
in step.
1943 offers us the time to re-model
and streamline our lives into
the machine pattern of motion,
speed, power; motion forward,
speed upward, power through the
grace of God.
Our first duty is not to 1943 or
to the machine age, but to the
Creator of all thinks. II Cor. 9:6.
by Alice Schouweiler.
OUQ, INQUIQING
PCPC)121-01
by Gwen Parsons
How may study habits at Bethel
be improved?
Lloyd S.: If each individual student
had the desire to study, the prob-lem
would be solved.
Mrs. ?: A few people should be
kicked out of the library.
Warner L.: We must realize our
responsibility toward God.
Peggy A.: Have date nights.
Elving A.: I don't know anything
about studying. (Ha! Ha! )
Gene J.: Put a few beds in the
library and please pull the
shades.
Miss Johnson: Standing around in
the halls won't help.
G. Nyman, after four years of ob-servation:
1. Close coffee shop.
2. Eliminate all athletics.
3. Compulsory rising hours.
4. Limit extra-curricular activi-ties.
5. No bath tub parties—what a
place this would be!
Miriam J.: By going to bed at
eleven and being quiet before
then.
Roger Y.: Sling a test everyday. In-flict
penalties for noise in the
dorm (on me).
A Biography of
K. J. Karlson
K.J. Karlson, son of Karl S. Asle-son,
was born in Sweden in 1877.
As was the custom in those days,
he received his name from his
father's first name plus "son" mak-ing
it Karlson. He was the eldest
of eight children in the family. Mr.
Karlson began his education in the
"old country" with regular public
school and then was graduated
from Bethel-seminariet in Stock-holm,
Sweden, a school similar to
our Seminary.
After twenty-seven years, he
came to America, leaving his
family, and home behind ,as Paul
says in Phillipians, "forgetting
those things which are behind and
pressing on toward the mark of
the prize of the high-calling of God
in Christ Jesus."
Mr. Karlson was graduated from
Clark University at Worcester,
Massachusetts, where he received
his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. During
his school days he served as stu-dent
pastor and in 1904-1906 held
a pastorate in Manchester, N. H.
where he was ordained in 1905.
Later he served in two other
churches, the longer being at Wor-cester,
Mass. from 1916-22. -
He moved to Minnesota in 1923
where he took up the work at the
Bethel Baptist Church in Minne-apolis
as well as that of teaching
in our Seminary. Previously he
had taught psychology at Clark
University for seven years. In four
years he was elected to the posi-tion
of Dean of the Seminary which
he has held ever since. He has
taught various subjects including
Hebrew, Life of Christ, Church His-tory
and in addition now teaches
psychology in the College.
Sacreligion
It isn't only a simple matter of
Gremlins that we of the Bethel
family have to beware of, but
rather something of much greater
importance. Being in Christian sur-roundings,
life seems easy, but that
is when we have to guard against
ourselves, rather than outside in-fluences.
We all are familiar with
spiritual things in their correct
sense, but then instead of keeping
them spiritual, many times we slip
and use them in an unspiritual
way.
We sometimes consider the or-dinary,
everyday act of prayer of
no more importance, spiritually,
than that of sharpening a pencil,
and yet we condemn others for
taking God's name in vain. When
we pray without entering God's
presence we as much commit a
blasphemy as others that use his
name for a curse. Just because we
have the name of "Christian"
tacked to us is no sign that we can
use His name for any and all pur-poses
or in any or all places that
we desire.
I don't believe that if we could
in the smallest measure realize
His power and glory that we would
enter a prayer meeting laughing
and having fun. Indeed we should
be joyful but it doesn't take the
form of boisterous laughter. Rather
it should be expressed in deep rev-erence.
Our Christianity is a great
deal judged by our attitudes and
if they are noble and worthy, I am
convinced that our expressions of
them will be likewise.
He has not only been active in
the school but also has been an
important leader in Conference
work, being the chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the Minne-sota
Swedish Baptist Conference
since 1934.
Mr. Karlson has also written sev-eral
books on his studies which
are in themselves treasures to pos-terity,
but there are other intan-gible
things that are greater and
more lasting than wood pulp that
will preserve the memory of Dr.
K. J. Karlson much longer.
This Is the Life
THE BETHEL CLARION
A bI-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Published by students every other Tuesday
except In July and August.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Editor-in-chief Dana Larson
Associate Editor Ethel Hale
Feature Editor Virginia Holmberg
Reporters Will Borne, Mrs. McClure, Miriam Quarnstrom,
Gordon Krantz, Roger Youngquist, Doris Fanberg, Dave
Carlson, Janet Lyth.
Circulation Marjorie Porter, Gwendolyn Parson
Typists.. Marian Peterson, Eleanor Peterson, Evelyn Sundberg, James Nyquist
Business Manager Stamford Widen
Editorial Advisor Miss Enid Platts
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935, at the postoffice of St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
eg.deitifrif 44.0.1 With 4uife4
Herr Schickelgruber has recently
dispatched another mess of grem-lins
to work on the integrity of
those loyal Americans at home.
Their purpose is to undermine mor-ale
and plant all sorts of untruths
and prejudices in the American
minds. The work of several of
these little insidious creatures has
been very felt around Bethel these
days of cramming for exams.
They have been felt most just
the night afore that plaguing
theme is due or the (censored)
history test comes. They sit on our
shoulders and tell us all about the
injustices of the teachers; they
whisper all the lovely things that
are nice to remember about that
"certain someone" back home.
They tell us how badly we need
sleep; they remind us all about the
funny programs on the radio, and
they usually get results when they
tell us how hungry we are, then
they laugh as we start on our way
to the nearest eating stalls.
During the hours that we are to
study (?) in the library they
scamper in and sit beside us and
remind us all about the "date"
last night. It is almost impossible
to get away from the little creat-ures
especially when they start the
"age-old" conversation of 'Have
you heard the latest?' And just
when you get on the clue to solve
why Savonarola lived during the
Reformation, one little fellow
braces himself against your nose
and chest and your head turns
slowly to the magazine rack and
lo and behold—There's the new
Reader's Digest that you haven't
read. Up from behind comes a
long sharp-nosed "gremlin-ette"
who sticks you with his long jag-ged-
edged beak. And you find
yourself holding up the wall read-ing
the Book Section which is good
N EWSE TT E S
Marilyn Peterson and Doris Fan-berg
were honored at a birthday
party in the lounge of the girls
dormitory on Wednesday night. We
understand that Marilyn appreciat-ed
all the greetings she received
on that day.
Bob and Stan Paulson worked to-gether
in the Emerald Ave. Bap-tist
Church of Chicago during
prayer week with Reverend Carl
Olson, a graduate of Bethel Semin-ary.
Meetings were held every
night during the week.
Another of life's enigmas—why
is it that the fellows who live out-side
the dorm can get to class in
the morning before those who live
right upstairs, only a flight of
stairs away?
Ralph Johnson, the fellow-the-sem
- wouldn't - be - the -same-again-without,
found a snowball in his
for killing just about all of your
two hours for study.
About 10:30 A. M. when the
gremlins have chased all remem-brances
of breakfast away, that is
if you ate breakfast, three or four
of the husky gremlins have you on
your way down to spend just a
few minutes of "fellowship with
the kids" in the coffee shop. When
you walk out of the rendezvous
and you know you are late for
Comp or you're locked out of
Chemistry, you start up to the mail
boxes. But the gremlins saw you
coming, and they delayed the mail
from home so your land lady will
have to wait just one more day for
her money, and your room mate
will have to wait one more day (?)
for the treat you owe him.
The clocks around school are the
hardest hit by these little
creatures. They are always stamp-ing
on the alarm buttons of the
dorm alarm clocks so that they
don't go off in time for you to get
to first hour class. Just when it is
about ten to twelve (P. M.) and
the line-up forms in front of the
girls' dorm these gremlins give the
minute hand of Mrs. Nylof's clock
a hefty push that ruins the "Late"
for next week. When Ec. gets the
most boring and sleep is impos-sible,
the bell in the hall is ex-pertly
padded so that the thing is
never heard, giving you at least
ten long minutes extra to suffer.
Morning, noon, and night these
hideous creatures are at work try-ing
to upset our plans, and to get
us to waste time. To get our dear
friend Schickelgruber back to
hanging—paper, we first have to
show these gremlins that we are
on the road to victory here on the
home front by defeating them at
every turn of the way.
bed the other night, and in spite
of the fact that he knows all of
the fellows in the dorm, he still
thinks it was an inside job!
The Alexis Society will have an
election soon. Watch for the bal-lot.
Members of the Alexis in-clude
all students who are in the
Seminary and those who plan to
attend in the future.
Speaking of birthdays, the girls
in the dorm sang (at lunch time)
for Percy on his birthday. Too bad
he wasn't there to enjoy it.
Perhaps Mr. Borgeson is a mir-acle
worker or a magician in plain
clothing. Be that as it may, we
haven't heard a single complaint
from the dormitory occupants
about the temperature, (except the
roomers in the extreme northwest
corner, but no one listens to them
anyway.)
Already money and pledges have
begun to come into the office for
the fund of the prospective men's
dormitory. In February our school
launches. a $75,000 drive for the
building to be built to accommo-date
75 men.
We would like to know what at-traction
Helen Soder finds in the
telephone booth on the landing.
"That's what she gets for cutting
Swedish," says Miss Johnson.
* * *
Laugh and the world laughs with
you. Cry and you streak your
rouge.
* * *
The other night the Board ate at
the dormitory. Lots of girls wish
they did all the time because of the
food ,but for the real truth ask the
kitchen crew and Miss Johnson.
* * *
What with all the cold weather
and snow there hasn't been as
much excitement outside the dorm
after 10:30 as formerly. It's a
great improvement—Scrut.
* * *
Did you know that when Rosen-quist
had a mustache he didn'i
need to use a tooth brush morn-ings
because he could just roll his
lip inside and wiggle it.
Gather 'Round
1 sun plus 1 groundhog—minus
1 handful of clouds equals 6 weeks
of winter.
Sun, cloud, and weeks of winter
are all well-known to Bethel stu-dents,
especially when they are
mixed in the Minnesota weather
proportions. Now what is a
groundhog?
Gather 'round, children, and
listen. The groundhog is called
everything from Woodchuck, we-jack
,and ground pig to subterran-ian
swine. Science knows a lot
about these interesting little
weather prophets.
For one thing, this annual cus-tom
of coming up for a look—see
is more or less compulsory. One
marmot (polite for groundhog),
way back in the ice age, overslept*
and had to wait some time before
a landslide dug him out. In fact,
The new theme song of certain
Bethel girls seems to be, "Califor-nia
Here We Come." Did you hear
about the auction of Saturday, Jan-uary
16, at the girls dorm? The
wardrobes of these certain girls
were greatly depleted.
* * *
Shine Swanson, the boy who was
self conscious about his tiny frame
upon entrance into high school,
grew eight inches in one year! Im-agine
that!
Gordon Krantz mentioned women
drivers in a recent discussion. He
said, "speaking of women drivers
—one thing about a worm he
doesn't stick out his hand to con-fuse
you before he turns."
* * *
This is a muddled up mess again
but concentration takes a clear
mind. I wish semesters were over
with.
Thanks Char and Roger for your
help in finding news.
archie the cockroach
his bones were found just last
month.
The most curious fact that
science has discovered about the
marmot is that he has no idea how
he influences the life of man. He
goes to sleep in the fall, and when
a warm whiff of air blows down
his front hall he wakes up. Usually
that happens in February. Being
hungry, he makes a bee-line for the
nearest exit. At the surface he
sits up on his haunches **. Then
he grabs what food he can find,
rolls back down his tunnel, and
goes to sleep.
From such an innocent begin-ning,
a legend has been built up
around the little buck-toothed ro-dent*
* *
* There were no alarm clocks in
the ice age, probably because
breakfast was not at seven.
** We don't know why, too.
* * * No offense, Tojo. On the
contrary.
Gremlin Report
By Bob Norstrom
Found in the Typewriter
dear boss
really boss you expect too much you complain of a little matter
of ten times around the gym and here i have to bounce on these type-writer
keys to write your column and the worst of it is the unearthly
hours in forced to keep to avoid the janitor
all of which wauldnt be so bad were it not that its only a week
since the last deadline i wish youd speak to the editor
another thing the way this typewriter doesnt work is a scandal to
the jaybirds if you dont fix it youll have to hire me a gypist there it
goes again i mean typist the keys jammed and i had an awful time
extricating my left hind foot i still have painful memories of the time
my antennae got wound up on the ribbon spool
i dont mind following you around other places but i dont think ill
go into the chemistry lab again the other day i tracked down a beautiful
odor of ripe cackle berries and all i found was a tube of h2s not that
im the only one who gets confused there was the time i was trying to
short circuit the tindle beam and overheard professor norstrom ask
mirian quarnstrom what is hno3 and quarnie answered oh ah well i have
it on the tip of my tongue and herr norstrom said youd better spit it
out thats nitric acid
now boss id better quit before i reach the end of the paper because
i just cant wrench the sheet out once i get it in the machine besides the
editor might wield the blue pencil as he no doubt will anyhow you know
how editors are
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Grumm Leading Scorer;
Bethel Led at Half, i5-13
Concordia won its first game of
the 1942-43 from a fighting victory
minded Bethel five. Both teams
played a good brand of ball with
the Comets having a slight edge
in experienced men.
Action was plenteous and many
fans wgre nursing sore throats
over the week-end as a result of
the see-saw contest which saw both
teams vie desperately for top
honors.
Bethel took the lead early in the
game with three field goals by Gus-tafson.
The rest of the firSt quar-ter
was a tight defensive game
with the score tied at 6-6 as the
second frame began.
The Indians were clicking to-gether
as a coordinated machine in
the second quarter of the game
rolling up points while still hold ,
ing an edge in the defense column.
As the horn sounded at the half,
the Bethelites were leading 15-13.
The Concordian men showed a
little more spirit in the final half
of the game and managed to stay
in the lead most of the remaining
time despite the thorns in their
side that the Indians proved them-selves
to be. The third quarter
gun found the Comets on the long
end of a 27-22 score.
Using all of their reserve play-ers,
Concordia held their lead in
the final quarter and split the
hemp for enough field goals to
show up as victors in the final
score, 39-33.
Concordia's Grumm was the nigh
scorer of the evening with 19
points, followed by Swanson with
10 and Gustafson with 8.
The free throw column gave the
Indians 3 out of 11 while the Corn-ets
sank 5 of 15. Johnny Daniel-son
was the only player to leave
the floor yia the 4-foul route.
Adam was the referee.
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Bethel may be fifty points behind
with a second left and every loyal
Bethel fan should still be yelling
his or her head off!
The game is almost over and
I'll soon have to get off the bench
or sleep down here, but let me get
this in. There is a good. deal of
talk about a new men's dorm. We
are wondering if the leaders are
considering a gym in the place.
Maybe it isn't possible, perhaps it
is. We need a new gym and we
hope they are thinking about it.
If they are, here's a fifty dollar
War Bond!
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There
Feb. 2��Ground Hog Day
Feb. 2—Gospel Team Program
Feb. 4—Exams.
Feb. 5—Exams.
Feb. 5—B. B.—Worthington
Feb. 8—Exams.
Feb. 9—Exams.
Feb. 9—Farewell Banquet.
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BETHEL DROPS OPENER
On the Bench
By BO
It's not legal, it's not official.
Nevertheless, friends, this is direct
from the bench. We are all human,
more or less, and as such are sub-ject
to errors. Those on the bench
not only are human but are under
the most terrific emotional stress
and strain imaginable; therefore of
all men they are the most pitiable.
So please, if we say anything with
which you are not in harmony or
with which you absolutely and
most vehemently disagree, take it
easy. We are now in the midst
of an • emotional distrubance-spring
isn's the only time—and
can't he held fully responsible. I
thought totaldepravity of man
would work in here but I guess
that belongs to my second sem-ester.
Always I have been brought up
to believe that the women did the
gossiping. Boy, you should have
been in on the basketball session
Monday after that Concordia game.
Coach Johnson started off telling
the guys what was wrong with
them. Next he asked the fellows
to make criticisms of one another.
Poor Thompson, he didn't have too
much hair anyway. As a sugges-tion,
perhaps it would be well also
if coach had a private conference
with each player to make correc-tions
and listen to criticisms. They
would be frank, more to the point,
and only the coach would know the
source. The coach should know
how each individual feels. Besides,
I could be still deluded into think-ing
I can play basketball.
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Comets Tip
Indians 52-34
The Bethel Reserves, trying val-iantly
to stake a win in the pre- -
liminary tilt last Saturday on their
home floor, went down in defeat
to a powerful Concordia High
School quintet. It was an action-packed
game but the Indians were
outplayed in every department.
The Comettes took the bad at
the start of the game and held it
during the rest of the game. The
Papooses tried to stem the on-slaught
but loose ball-handling and
poor posses spelled defeat for
Bethel against a well organized
outfit from Concordia.
As the horn ended the first half,
the Bethel men were on the short
end of a 29-14 score but despite
the doubled_ score piled up by the
Comettes, the Indians came back
in the second half to make an ad-ditional
20 points. However, Con-cordia
continued its fast brand of
ball to lead at the end of the game
52-34.
Henrichs of Concordia, led the
field in scoring with a total of 24
points followed at a distance by
Mentzer with 10 and Anderson with
8 points for Bethel. Bethel com-pleted
only 2 out of 15 attempted
while Concordia made 6 out of 10.
Adam, from Cambridge, also ref-erred
this game.
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